Zimbabwe Students Used Breakfast Cereal To Make Alcohol

Boarding schools in Zimbabwe have banned students from bringing in certain types of breakfast cereals after discovering they were using it to make alcohol.

Zimbabwe's The Chronicle newspaper reports boarding schools sent notices to parents about brands of cereal and oatmeal porridge that kids could use for make-shift beer.

A local chemist told the Chronicle cereals can be mixed with sugar and yeast to create the concoction, and warned that the drink is particularly dangerous because you can't control the alcohol content in the brewing process.

Some law enforcement and school officials are linking the trend in the homemade beer to a rise in so-called "Vuzu parties," reported as intoxicated "sex marathons" that can also include marijuana and cough syrup.